RESUME: The project aims to aid 140 unemployed women from
Sofia district to start working. 100 of them will complete tailoring
qualification courses in accordance with the needs of private tailoring
firms. 60 of them will be hired as contracted in advance between the
firms and the Foundation, while for the remaining 40 women employment
will be provided by contracts, concluded with firms during the project
implementation. Innovative methods for finding employment via Internet
will be used for ensuring jobs for the remaining 40 women. The project
will introduce a model of a NGO playing an intermediary role between
private firms and representatives of its target group for securing
their employment and social integration as individuals with equal
rights. The results and the good practices of the project will be
published in the media, in the web-site of the Foundation and in a
brochure, which will be distributed among unemployed women from Sofia
district.

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PROJECT GOALS AND AIMS

The project sets as its
general goal to contribute to enlarging the role of NGOs in encouraging
the social integration of marginalized communities in the following
ways:

Providing similar NGOs with information about the positive experience
in implementing a model for securing employment for unemployed
women by NGO performing intermediary role between the target group
and firms – employers and by flexible schemes for professional
qualification. The information will be disseminated through media
publications, on the web-site of the Foundatoin, by sending traditional
an e-mail, and by distributing a brochure.

Searching for possibilities for multiplication of the project’s
model through partnership and cooperation with similar NGOs from
the country in implementing similar projects, which would take
into account the domestic labour market conditions and the specific
local needs of unemployed women.

Aiding unemployed women in Sofia district to find professional
and personal realization as individuals with equal rights by disseminating
the brochure with the aid of NGOs and Bureaus of Labour.

The project aims as its specific task
to aid 140 unemployed women from Sofia district to start working in
the following manner:

enrolment in courses for professional qualification and subsequent
employment, secured by concluded in advance contracts with firms,
which will provide jobs for the women in accordance with their
aquired in the courses specialization;

implementation of a personalized schedule for job-hunting and
securing employment via Internet;

preparation of the unemployed women how to present themselves
in most suitable ways to employers in CV and on interviews, raising
their self-confidence as valuable individuals, who should be valued
by their qualities and skills, which will lead to equal access
to employment, financial independence of the women and their socialization
as equal individuals.

The project envisages publications of
the positive experiences of the women in finding jobs and of the research
of the efficacy of new methods for job-hunting via Internet in media,
on the career counselling pages of the web-site of the Foundation,
and in a brochure, all of which will become known to job-hunting unemployed
women, will aid them to find professional realization and will contribute
for their social inegration as individuals with full-fledged rights.